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How the Zika virus damages eyes
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Serious eye abnormalities are associated with microcephaly in the newborn caused by Zika.(Photo: PROVIDED PHOTO)Vision begins in the eye with light patterns on the retina.The images produced by those patterns are perceived in the brain.
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S. Korea confirms 17th Zika virus infection
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2017/01/06 13:39SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Yonhap) -- South Korea has confirmed another case of the Zika virus infection, raising the number of people infected with the virus here to 17, health authorities said Friday.A 20-year-old Korean woman was confirmed to have been infected with the mosquito-borne virus after visiting the Philippines, according to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC).She is presumed to have been bitten by a mosquito during her five-day stay in the Southeast Asian nation in December, they saidThe woman, who had received treatment at a Seoul hospital, is currently healthy, KCDC officials said.
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MSU receives $1 million grant for fight against Zika virus
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EAST LANSING, Mich. – Michigan State University has received a $1 million grant that will go towards the fight against the Zika virus.The money comes from a grant program from the United States Agency for International Development, and will go towards building a facility in Mexico which MSU scientists refer to a "mosquito factory."The factory will breed millions of mosquitoes and release them into the wild.Males bred at the facility will be infected with bacteria that is harmless to humans, but will sterilize any female mosquitoes they mate with.
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How Zika virus hurts infants' brain
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A report on 11 infants in Brazil suggests the term "congenital Zika syndrome" be used to describe such cases.This is because microcephaly (small head circumference) was only one of the clinical signs of this congenital malformation disorder, according to an article published online by JAMA Neurology.The article by Amilcar Tanuri, M.D., Ph.D., of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and coauthors describes abnormalities present in babies from pregnant women exposed to the Zika virus.
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Zika virus: Dengue virus antibodies may make infections worse
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Congress activists protest against BMC (Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation) over Dengue issues in Mumbai, India Hindustan Times / GettyThe Zika virus made headlines in 2015 when it spread to Brazil for the first recorded time, infecting adults and causing birth defects in thousands of children.Though the virus was downgraded from a global health emergency to chronic threat level by the World Health Organisation at the end of 2016, the disease is still a very pressing issue in parts of the world.ADVERTISEMENTScientists at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) have been looking into the effect of the Dengue virus antibodies and how this may worsen Zika infections.
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